“Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy.”

“The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.”

“If people knew the sexual intimacy of each other, no one would greet each other on the street.”

“We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma ...”

“If only it were possible to love without injury fidelity isnt enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body...”

“She looks at the swings, and I can see shes imagining what theyd look like if the kids werent there. The guilt of this holds her down momentarily. It appears to be there constantly. Never far away,...”

“Occasionally you can hear her howl, when the sky is black and the moon is full.”

“To write, Marguerite Duras remarked, is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.”

“I wasn't lying when I said I'd follow you out of this place. I just can't figure out why you want to take me with you.”

“We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every...”

“There can never be suffering in the home of a person who is working for world's salvation.”

“The purpose of bayonet training is to awaken your killer instincts. The killer instinct will make you strong. If the meek ever inherit the earth the strong will take it away from them. The weak exi...”